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Tyrell vs Tyris

American parents have registered 16,215 Tyrells since 1880, against 663 Tyrises. Tyrell is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrell against Tyris, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrell Tyris

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tyrell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1963, when Tyrell had 11 and Tyris had 6.

Side by side

  Tyrell Tyris
Total US births 16,215663
Most in one year 67728
Babies in 2025 789
Estimated living today 16,000640
Median age today 2926
Peak year 19922007
Best rank 354th boys3,687th boys
Rank in 2025 1,959th8,243rd
First recorded 19471963
Girls / boys 145 / 16,0700 / 663

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tyrells alive today are over 29; half the Tyrises are over 26. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tyrell and Tyris.